Iron Lady: Interview with Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep has just won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in Drama

Review: https://emanuellevy.com/review/iron-lady-meryl-streeps-spectacular-spectacle/

Pina: Making of Wenders’ Great 3D Dance Film

Wenders felt that he had not yet found a way to adequately translate Pina Bausch’s unique art of movement, gesture, speech and music into film. Over the years the joint film project turned into a friendly ritual, almost a running gag, with both artists reminding one another of their plan. “When?” “As soon as I know how…”

 

Haywrire: Interview with Soderbergh

I am a fan of the early James Bond films, ‘From Russia With Love’ may be my favorite. In those movies, you get to know who the characters are instead of just what they do. In more recent espionage-action films, there isn’t a lot of time spent developing the supporting characters–Soderbergh

Melancholia: Interview with Visionary Director Lars Von Trier

Melancholia is one of the Best Foreign Films of 2011

The ending was in place from the outset. I immediately knew that the audience needed to know it from the first images of the film. It was the same thing with ‘Titanic.’ When they board the ship, you just know: aw, something with an iceberg will probably turn up. And it is my thesis that most films are like that–Von Trier

Hugo: Scorsese’s Love Letter to Cinema

“I wanted to make a movie that my youngest daughter Francesca, who’s 12, could see with her friends,” says legendary director Martin Scorsese about “Hugo,” his new children’s adventure.  “Hugo” tells the astonishing story of a  bright and resourceful orphan (Asa Butterfield) whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father (played […]